John Bergstrom Still Doesn't Play Well With Others

And yet, it's still up his ass.



Hee hee...
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You Okay With That?

According to the "Which Big Lebowski character are you?" quiz:

Why don't you check it out? Or we cut off your Johnson!

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Thought for the Day

Most Lefties couldn't identify the broad side of a barn even if they were standing in plain view of it.

Not yet... right?

Many years ago when I was working in contract security a woman asked me where the main post office was in downtown Minneapolis. I pointed directly to the immense limestone building with the words UNITED STATES POST OFFICE in enormous letters chiseled in stone about a block away at the end of the street.

She said she couldn't see it.

I'm not kidding.

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So Anyway...

Some people wonder why I'm an atheist.

Really.

There's this fellow who maintains an archive of bad album covers.

Go there at your own risk.

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And Now...

Another sighting of Islamic Rage Boy!

My lack of God! What a waste of mass and energy.
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Quote of the Day

Of all the STDs to get, I'm stuck with venereal conscience.

-- Aubrey Chorde.

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Quotes of the Day

Mikhail Kalashnikov and Eugene Stoner.

"I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence."

-- Mikhail Kalashnikov

"Blame the Nazi Germans for making me become a gun designer... I always wanted to construct agriculture machinery."

-- Ibid.

"During the Vietnam war, American Soldiers would throw away their M-16s to grab AK-47s and bullets for it from dead Vietnamese soldiers, I hear American Soldiers in Iraq use it quite often."

-- Ibid.

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OH NO!

Not Lileks!

A collection of photoshopped images has appeared on Hugh Hewitt's townhall site; including this one:



My heart has to bleed for him.

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A Message...

I have a message for all those who believe in anthropogenic global warming:

WE LIVE IN A DYNAMIC UNIVERSE! GET OVER IT!

We now return you to your regularly scheduled (nonstatic) reality.
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Meanwhile in the Blogosphere

Rachel Lucas is having fun with a meme, let's look at the revised questions (My answers in italics):


I threatened to make the questions on that meme more interesting, at least to myself. I'd much rather learn about people's flaws, dirty secrets, and psychological problems than their favorite stupid color or what stupid kind of ice cream they like, wouldn't you? Here:

WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? WHAT INSULTING NICKNAMES WERE YOU CALLED IN CHILDHOOD?

I decline to answer that question.

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? WHEN YOU CRY, DO YOU LOOK UGLY, OR DOES IT GIVE YOU A BEAUTIFUL SAD GLOW?

How should I know?

DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? ARE YOU FORGETTING HOW TO WRITE BECAUSE YOU SPEND SO MUCH TIME ON THE COMPUTER?

Yes.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? DO YOU THINK VEGETARIANS ARE INSANE? (BECAUSE THEY ARE.)

Yes.

DO YOU HAVE KIDS? DO YOU LIKE KIDS? IF SO, WHY? WHY, IN THE NAME OF GOD?

No.

IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? IF YOU WERE A DOG, WOULD YOU LICK YOURSELF JUST BECAUSE YOU COULD? DON'T TRY TO DENY IT.

How kharmically fucked up do I have to be in order to come back as a dog?

DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? ARE YOU AS FRIGHTENED OF CLOWNS AS YOU SHOULD BE IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU?

No.

DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? IF YOU COULD BE EITHER VERY BEAUTIFUL OR VERY SMART, WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE AND WHY?

Smart is beautiful.

WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? HOW MUCH MONEY WOULD YOU REQUIRE TO HAVE INTIMATE RELATIONS WITH MICHAEL MOORE OR ROSIE O'DONNELL (DEPENDING ON YOUR SEXUAL PREFERENCE BUT DOES THAT REALLY MATTER WITH THESE TWO)?

I would eat a gun before I do either of them.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CUSS WORD?

Bloody.

DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? IF YOU'RE A MAN, HAVE YOU EVER CAUGHT YOUR JUNK IN YOUR ZIPPER? HOW BAD DID IT HURT? IF YOU'RE A WOMAN, HOW GLAD ARE YOU THAT YOU'RE NOT A MAN?

Yes. I won't describe it.

DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? DO YOU THINK YOU ARE GOING TO GROW OLD OR DIE TRAGICALLY YOUNG?

I once said that in ten years I would either be dead or in charge of the all-night firing squad. That was about twenty years ago.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM? DESCRIBE YOUR MOST RECENT NIGHTMARE.

I'm standing in a wheat field watching Minuteman ICBM's climb into the sky.

WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? DO YOU WISH THAT, INSTEAD OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION DEBATES, THEY INSTEAD HAD TO BOX EACH OTHER, BECAUSE THEN THERE'D NEVER EVER BE ANOTHER DEMOCRAT IN THE WHITE HOUSE?

I'd favor a duel with pistols.

RED OR PINK? ABBA: THE BLONDE OR THE BRUNETTE?

Frida.

WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? WHAT DISEASE DO YOU MOST FEAR CONTRACTING?

Socialist Cooties.

WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? WHO DO YOU MISS THE LEAST?

Why should I try to remember who I don't miss?

WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? ON A SCALE OF 1-10, HOW MUCH DO YOU HATE SHOPPING FOR NEW CLOTHES (10 BEING SO MUCH YOU'D RATHER CLEAN THE CAT BOX WITH YOUR BARE HANDS).

Five. I usually spend more on books than I do on clothes.

WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE? WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE BEFORE THE LAST TIME YOU THREW UP?

Stuff from the Old Country Buffet.

WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? NAME FIVE "CLASSIC" POPULAR SONGS YOU HOPE YOU NEVER HEAR AGAIN AS LONG AS YOU LIVE.

I'd rather not. In general its anything in the whiny commie-prop mode from the late sixties and early seventies.

IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? IF YOU WERE A DOG, WHICH BREED WOULD YOU BE?

Again, how kharmically fucked up do I have to be in order to come back as a dog?

FAVORITE SMELLS? FAVORITE BODILY FUNCTION? (COUGH, SNEEZE, BELCH, POOP, FART, YAWN, ETC)

Why?

WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU HAD A HUGE FIGHT WITH, WHAT WAS THE FIGHT ABOUT, AND WHO WON?

Ex-landlady, a barking moonbat troofer. Victory in such arguments is not possible.

FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH? AS WE ALL KNOW, PRO FOOTBALL IS THE ONLY SPORT WORTH CARING ABOUT. IN LIGHT OF THAT FACT, WHO IS THE BEST NFL QUARTERBACK OF THE LAST 10 YEARS? BEST RUNNING BACK? BEST WIDE RECEIVER? BEST DEFENSIVE PLAYER? BIGGEST PRIMA DONNA? WHINIEST BITCH?

Who cares? I haven't watched a football game since the Vikings lost the Super Bowl for the fourth time.

HAIR COLOR? BALD MEN ARE VERY SEXY. DISCUSS.

I'm bald.

EYE COLOR? THE INVENTION OF THE PILL IS A GOOD ENOUGH REASON TO BELIEVE IN GOD. DISCUSS.

Being in control of all aspects of your life is nice...

DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? DO YOU HAVE PERFECT VISION? IF SO, RACHEL LUCAS ENVIES YOU WITH THE FIRE OF A THOUSAND GALAXIES.

No.

FAVORITE FOOD? FOOD YOU FIND SO REPUGNANT THAT YOU SIMPLY CANNOT BELIEVE OTHER PEOPLE PUT IT IN THEIR MOUTHS?

Green Beans.

SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? WHEN YOU GO TO THE MOVIES AND THE JERK BEHIND YOU KICKS YOUR SEAT CONSTANTLY, DO YOU IGNORE/MOVE OR DO YOU CHALLENGE THEM TO FISTICUFFS?

I move.

LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED THAT MADE YOU GET ON YOUR KNEES AFTERWARDS AND BEG GOD TO GIVE YOU THE LAST TWO HOURS OF YOUR LIFE BACK?

Iron Eagle II.

WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? DO YOU EVER PUT CLOTHES ON YOUR PETS?

I have no pets.

SUMMER OR WINTER? BEER, WINE, OR LIQUOR?

Diet Cola.

HUGS OR KISSES? FALL ASLEEP OR CUDDLE?

I decline to answer that question.

FAVORITE DESSERT? FAVORITE FOOD THAT YOU KNOW WILL KILL YOU EVENTUALLY BUT YOU DON'T CARE BECAUSE IT IS JUST SO FREAKING DELICIOUS?

Chocolate marshmallow ice cream.

WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? HAVE YOU EVER BEEN SO DISGUSTED BY A BOOK'S ENDING THAT YOU VIOLENTLY DESTROYED THE BOOK?

No. But I did literally throw my copy of MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA by S.M. Stirling across the room at about page 17.

WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? DO YOU HAVE P0RN ON YOUR COMPUTER? DON'T LIE.

Yes.

WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON T.V. LAST NIGHT? TRUE OR FALSE: "REALITY" T.V. IS THE BEST REASON FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD TO HATE AMERICA.

I'm supposed to care about some dumbfuck who can't use a channel selector?

FAVORITE SOUND? FAVORITE DRUNKEN SLATTERN: PARIS, LINDSEY, OR BRITNEY?

I'm supposed to give a fuck?

ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? MOST DESERVING OF CHUCK-NORRIS-STYLE ROUNDHOUSE KICK TO THE THROAT: AL GORE OR JESSE JACKSON?

The Goracle. Think in terms of effects.

WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME? WHAT HAPPENED THE FIRST TIME YOU GOT DRUNK? 'FESS UP.

I was at home, I went to bed.

DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? IF YOU COULD HAVE MAD SKILLZ IN DANCING OR IN SINGING, WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE AND WOULD IT BE FOR YOUR OWN PERSONAL SATISFACTION OR TO IMPRESS OTHER PEOPLE AND POSSIBLY GET SOME ACTION?

I sing, and no one is impressed with it.

WHERE WERE YOU BORN? IF YOU COULD HAVE ONE SUPERPOWER, WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE AND WOULD YOU USE IT FOR GOOD OR EVIL?

To cause death at a thought. Since I would freely use this power on socialists, islamists, and other such trash it would have to be for good.

WHOSE ANSWERS ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING BACK? IF YOU NEVER SEE ANOTHER Q&A MEME AGAIN, WILL IT BE TOO SOON?

Yes.

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Quote of the Day

It's basic politeness to say good bye to a friend. And to make sure he's not playing an instrument that can go supercritical and take out half the spaceport.

-- Florence Ambrose, Engineer.

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In Other News

There's been another sighting of Islamic Rage Boy.

The kid needs to calm down. Perhaps a visit by a couple of large Sicilian gentlemen with baseball bats would help.
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Quote of the Day

From Xerxes99 at Fark.com as a caption to this photograph:

Nothing more beautiful in the world if you ask me...Especially when you get to witness trembling Japanese tourists taking pictures of it.

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In Other News

There's been another sighting of Islamic Rage Boy.



Remember, the .45 ACP was invented to deal with trash like this.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Today in Pizzaland

There is a driver who has worked at my Pizza Hut location longer than I have.

Today his car caught on fire.

Apparently he was using on of the small "personal pan" pizza boxes for an ashtray and cigarette butt burned through and ignited the form padding in the passenger side front seat.

The fire was caught before it did serious damage to the car. He's still driving it on deliveries tonight.
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Blast From The Past

"There was once, O men of Athens, something in the minds of the people that is no longer there --something that defeated the might and wealth of Persia, that vindicated the liberty of Greece, the was never conquered on land or sea, and that is now gone, leaving all Greece in turmoil and dismay.

"And what was that? Nothing elaborate or abstruse, but the simple fact all men hated those who took bribes from the seekers of power and the agents of subversion. That was accounted the greatest of crimes, so that he who was convicted of having been corrupted of bribes or by favors was condemned to the ultimate penalty, with no room for excuse and no hope for pardon.

... But now everything is for sale ... For what are now the consequnces of treason? Envy, for those who have profited; laughter for those who confess; pardon for those who are convicted; and hatred--hatred is now reserved for the man who speaks harshly of treason."

-- Demosthenes, 341 B.C. (written three years before Athens lost her independence) ,

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Quote of the Day

Science adopts a term from The Far Side.



"Now this end is called the thagomizer, after the late Thag Simmons."

“He has a completely warped mind, which we absolutely love.”

-- Ken Carpenter, a paleontologist, on Gary Larson.

I miss The Far Side.
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Thought for the Day

Jenny Agutter.

Going up to Mom's house again.

Back on Sunday.

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Double-Plus Duh!

Terrorists get wasted.



Frontally attacking fortified positions in broad daylight is something that real armies (like the one I was in from '82 to '85) teach their troops NOT to do.

To actually drive up to the target in civilian vehicles in daylight is just double-plus stupid.

It appears that the terrorists (and their treasonous scum-sucking vermin supporters here in the U.S.) have yet to grasp the fact that warfare is a process that is subject to rational study and practice and not an exercise in testosterone generation.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Quote of the Day

"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wagn'nagl dominos." -- (In his house in R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits for the pizza guy.)

-- Mark Urbin's RPG Sig page

There's a reason I work for Pizza Hut and not Domino's.

There's also a reason why I never pursued a career in music.

And another...
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Thought for the Day

Barbara Eden.

I'm off to Mom's house.

Back Sunday.
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And Now For Something Completely Different

The New Adventures Of Queen Victoria!



Yes, it actually is a syndicated comic strip.

What amazing thing will they think of next?
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This Is Interesting

I was reading "How Smart Is Hillary?" By Thomas Lifson when I came across this sentence:

Hillary, in other words, is a consummate networker and climber.

Anyone who is well read on the subject of the history of the Soviet Union could also say the same thing about Comrade Stalin.

It's just another reason for me to refer to Hillary as Hilary Stalinova.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Thought for the Day

Politics is mainly a contest between those who think they know but don't (The Left and the Greens) and those who know that they don't know (Conservatives and Libertarians)

-- Dr. John Ray

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This Is Insane

The federal government has performed a major boo-boo.

Tuesday: Vang Pao charged in Laos plot

In an indictment sure to jolt Minnesota's large Hmong population, federal authorities in California charged Gen. Vang Pao and eight others Monday with plotting to overthrow the Communist government in their former homeland of Laos.

"We are looking at conspiracy to murder thousands and thousands of people at one time," Assistant U.S. Attorney Bob Twiss said in court.

That should be "twit", not Twiss. Anyone who acts to protect a communist state is an idiot and an accessory to mass slavery and mass murder.

Killing a communist is not an act of murder. It is an act that saves human lives.

How the hell can we expect the institution of government to defend human civilization when they work instead to protect barbarians?

U.S. Attorney Bob Twiss and his staff should be fired for giving aid and comfort to the enemies of Mankind.


I've included the complete text below.

Tuesday: Vang Pao charged in Laos plot

The once revered leader of Minnesota's Hmong and eight others were arrested in an alleged plot to overthrow the Laos government.

By Curt Brown, Star Tribune

Last update: June 05, 2007 – 10:46 PM
In an indictment sure to jolt Minnesota's large Hmong population, federal authorities in California charged Gen. Vang Pao and eight others Monday with plotting to overthrow the Communist government in their former homeland of Laos.

"We are looking at conspiracy to murder thousands and thousands of people at one time," Assistant U.S. Attorney Bob Twiss said in court.

Vang Pao led Hmong soldiers who fought alongside the CIA and U.S. troops during the Vietnam War, paving the way for thousands of Hmong to end up in Minnesota. Once revered, Vang Pao has had his popularity and credibility decline in recent years. Two years ago, the Minnesota attorney general's office forced the Vang Pao Foundation to close and pay restitution after violating state nonprofit laws.

Vang Pao splits his time between homes in Minnesota and Orange County, Calif.

He was scheduled to be in St. Paul for next month's Hmong soccer tournament. He is now in custody after being arrested at his home in Westminster, Calif., on Monday morning.

"Some people have positive feelings about the general, some don't like him ... but this will come as a shock," said Ilean Her, director of the Council on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans.

"I have to see some evidence," she said. "He's at the trail end of his popularity and I would say these charges would have had more credibility 10 years ago when he had much more influence, at least here in Minnesota."

Xang Vang -- who drives the general when he comes to Minnesota, including a trip for a veterans' celebration earlier this year -- said that despite the recent controversies with his foundation, Vang Pao remains highly respected in the local Hmong community.

"He's like George Washington to the American citizens," said Vang, who runs the Hmong American Mutual Assistance Association. "Without him, the Hmong would all be dead in Laos."

Vang Pao has long been unwavering in his promise to Hmong refugees that he would help them overthrow the Communist government of Laos so that they could one day return to their homeland.

He has reportedly raised millions of dollars in the past 25 years, often from impoverished Hmong families who make monthly contributions to a secretive organization called Neo Hom.

Her said the indictment will likely spark fear in the local Hmong community, which is considered the largest urban concentration of Hmong in the country. "Resistance fighting can now be labeled as terrorism by U.S. authorities," Her said. "The local community will want to see the evidence."

Six-month investigation

The nine men indicted, including Harrison Ulrich Jack, a 1968 graduate of West Point, allegedly conspired to obtain hundreds of AK-47s, Stinger missiles, anti-tank missiles, mines, rockets and C-4 explosive, as well as smoke grenades, to overthrow the Laotian government.

All the suspects are in custody and appeared before a federal magistrate judge in U.S. District Court in Placerville, Calif., on Monday afternoon to hear the charges read against them.

The charges stem from a six-month undercover investigation, dubbed "Operation Tarnished Eagle," that included a series of meetings with undercover federal agents during which the plotters allegedly discussed moving weapons into safe houses in Thailand and Laos.

Vang Pao is accused with the eight others of violating the U.S. neutrality act by plotting on American soil to invade a foreign country.

Jack, a former U.S. infantry officer who retired in 1977 as a lieutenant colonel in the California National Guard, allegedly approached defense contractors seeking munitions for the plot, according to a criminal complaint.

Some of the suspects allegedly sought out former Army Special Forces and Navy Seal veterans to serve as mercenaries.

125 AK-47s and 20,000 rounds

The complaint charges that since January the suspects have inspected a wide variety of weapons, including AK-47s, Stinger missiles and Claymore mines.

The complaint said the group purchased "an initial installment of 125 AK-47 machine guns, 20,000 rounds of ammunition, and crates of smoke grenades for a purchase price of $100,000, to be delivered in Bangkok, Thailand, on June 12, 2007."

A $50,000 payment was to be made June 11, with the balance to be handed over the next day, when the weapons were to be received, the complaint said. A third payment of $50,000 was to cover the purchase of some Stinger missiles, the government contends.

Jack allegedly met and spoke with an undercover federal agent several times to discuss weapons procurement, and had budgeted $9.8 million for the desired munitions. The money was to come from "contributions from community leaders through the clan leadership," the complaint says.

Various discussions of the plot allegedly took place at Sacramento-area bars, restaurants and hotels, and the parking lot of a Kmart near Hwy. 99 in Stockton.

Reducing targets 'to rubble'

In May, the complaint said, the suspects had "intelligence operatives" in place in the capital city of Vientiane, Laos, "conducting surveillance of military and government facilities in downtown Vientiane."

The suspects also "issued an operations plan to a contractor to conduct a military strike in downtown Vientiane," the complaint said, "against specifically identified military and civilian government personnel and buildings."

It said the suspects told their mercenary force "to reduce [the targets] to rubble, and make them look like the results of the attack upon the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11, 2001."

Staff writers Howie Padilla, Paul McEnroe and the Sacramento Bee contributed to this report. Curt Brown • 651-298-1542 • curt.brown@startribune.com

© 2007 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.

Quote of the Day

The Baptist practice of ensuring that all of their parishioners can swim is a good idea

-- Andrew Borntreger, U.S. Marine and Film Critic

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And Now For Something Completely Different

Today in Day by Day, Chris Muir takes a shot at Lucas Electrics.

Perfectly understandable. I briefly owned a British sports car (a Triumph TR-7) and I can tell you from experience that Lucas Electrics parts suck.

I should also note that when the Brazilian Navy bought an old British aircraft carrier they had to completely rewire it with Brazilian made electrical components.
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And Now...A Warning

I'm going up to Mom's house. Back tommorow.
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And Now...A Link!

Ladies and Gentlemen!

THE DARWIN AWARDS

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Dumb F***s of the Day.

From the state of California (gosh, what a surprise) comes the story of office supply store employees who were assaulted by some gangster (or wanna-be gangsters) for wearing their red uniform shirts in the workplace.

Staples employees shirts spark gang attack

PETALUMA, Calif. (AP) - Petaluma police say two Staples office supply store employees and a shopping center customer were beaten recently by gang members, apparently for wearing red clothing.

The attacks happened Friday near the Staples office supply store in Petaluma, where two workers and another person were assaulted.

Gosh, I guess people working for a living and having to wear uniform apparel in the workplace must be an alien concept (I say, concept!) for some folks.

Two 17-year-olds, a boy and a girl, were later arrested.

Petaluma Police Sergeant Dave Kahl says a Staples employee was standing outside the store when the suspects began yelling gang slogans and challenging him to fight. He started to walk into the store when they attacked him with their fists.

The suspects were booked into Sonoma County Juvenile Hall.

Where they will no doubt receive a good talking to from what passes for authorities in the state of California.

The other idiot of the day was some (race deleted) kid who ordered a pizza from the Pizza Hut where I work as a driver. When I arrived the kid told me that he didn't have the money and that his mother was expected to arrive at the home in about ten minutes.

No way in Hell am I going to wait around for someone's mommy when I have other customers waiting for their orders.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Thought for the Day

I still wonder how folks on the Left manage to get out of bed in the morning (or early afternoon) without seriously hurting themselves.
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That's Interesting

What a bunch of assholes!

The Kennedy Clan and money.

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Thought for the Day

Olivia Newton-John

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Um...Okay...

A Message...

From Human Events Online:

If Republicans hope to win the presidency next year, they better find a candidate who is prepared to stand for very bold, very dramatic and very systematic change in Washington. Not only that, but they had better make the case that the left-wing Democrat likely to be nominated represents the failed statusquo : the bureaucracies that are failing, the social policies that are failing, the high tax policies that are failing, and the weakness around the world that has failed so badly in protecting America.

What the Republican Party needs to get through their collective skulls right now is the fact that the age of politics as usual is over.

No more compromise. No more deals. No more bipartisanship.

There must be a radical clean up of the mess that the Left has created. The partisans of socialism must be systematically removed from our public institutions. And if we are to have a future as the core nation of our civilization we must make a special effort to clean out the Augean Stables that our educational establishment has become under the tutelage of the Left.

And we must with volume and clarity tell the spoiled brats who imagine themselves to be the heirs of Marx and Lenin to grow up or get out.

Of course, if those idiots would just die, it would be nice too.

(Hat Tip to Dr. John Ray.)
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And Now...

Usually I post this sort of thing over at My Own Private Universe but I've already updated it this week.

From 1001 Things Mr. Welch is not allowed to do in a roleplaying game:

976. I was not issued a flamethrower for my own personal amusement.

977. Disable plot device is not a real skill.

979. Mumus do not appear in the starting equipment list for a reason.

981. My last wish cannot be for Ragnarok.

982. Trailblaze means find a path, not cut down every tree between here and there.

984. In the middle of a black ops I cannot moonlight as tech support.

990. Even if he botches his medicine roll, I can't sue the medtech for malpractice.

991. "Kiww the Wabbit" is not a proper viking battlecry.

994. Corporate Pop Whore is not a real prestige class.

998. The script for the Baywatch movie does not cause more Sanity loss than the Necronomicon.

1000. I will stop referring to the powergamer as MinMaximus.

1001. No matter how bad the game is going, I won't stradle the table like Slim Pickens riding a bomb.

What I want to know is what is the deal with the accordion?
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A Question

What I would like to know is how O.J. Simpson managed to acquire at least ten friends?

Jeff Ruby, owner of the steakhouse Jeff Ruby’s Louisville, asked O.J. Simpson to leave his restaurant minutes after Simpson arrived about 10:30 Friday night.

Told by a customer that the former football player had arrived at the restaurant, 325 W. Main St., Ruby said, he informed Simpson, “I am not serving you.”

“He had a party of 10 or 12 people,” said Ruby, who had served Simpson many times at his Cincinnati restaurants before the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman, of which Simpson was acquitted.

I'm pretty sure I know where I'm going for dinner if I ever visit Louisville.

“This was the only thing I could do for the victims’ families,” said Ruby. He said the 50 or so people in the private room where Simpson had been seated “stood up and applauded me” when Simpson left.

“And who walks in five minutes later?” asked Ruby.

Michael Jordan.

Sounds like a pretty cool place to eat.

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This Is Cool

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present the Wikipedia article on one of the coolest guys in the known universe:

Sir Patrick Moore!

I used to spend hours and hours at the public library pouring over his books.

And he also plays the xylophone.
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So Anyway

I've updated My Own Private Universe today.
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Thought for the Day

One thing that I have noticed is that those who posture as mentally and morally superior people really are not the superior beings that they believe they are.

Reality is real. And the self-appointed betters are in practice some of the biggest dumbfucks on Earth.

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A Suggestion

READ THIS:

Years after the end of the war, American G.I.'s were often asked why they fought so hard in the Second World War and the answer was almost always the same:

"So my kids don't have to come over here and do this again"

Americans of that war and that generation, knew the high cost that comes from an incomplete victory and a policy of isolation because they had learned the lesson of 1919. The American nation was shocked at the cost of the First World War and chose to enter a period of isolation afterwards but the result was not peace, but the rise of Hitler and the Japanese Empire. The cost of the 'peace movement' that formed at the end of the First World War could be measured in real terms of the 52 million people world wide who died in the second period of conflict.

It was a conflict that could've been avoided. The conflict of the Second World War and its horrid cost in lives is what inspired a generation to do what it could to ensure that the lives spent in that conflict would not be wasted by the nation being forced in the next generation of American soldiers being sent to the soil of Europe to fight yet another war.

The narcissistic trash that makes up the membership of the so-called peace movement simply do not care whether you and your children live, or die, or suffer under the yoke of an unwashed barbarian. They plaster their cars with bumper sticker, carry signs, bang on drums, throw Frisbees, and perform other useless rituals so that they can feel good about themselves and show the world how morally superior they are. Never mind that they openly deny the fundamental fact which is the foundation of all valid moral law, that Human Life -- life as a rational being in control of one's own life -- is the standard of all moral values, and that those who would damage or destroy Human Life must be removed from human society and if necessary be destroyed.

The adherents of pacifism have so inverted their own mental processes that they look upon the perpetrators of mass slavery and mass murder as good and those who take up arms to defend the society of consent as the most depraved evil.

Those who profess to be a part of the "peace movement" need to understand that the emotion of "wanting peace" alone is almost never enough to actually gain the peace they so desire. On occasion, you have to demonstrate that you are willing to fight to be able to maintain the peace that you have. A large number of military people for over 60 years dedicated their lives to the cause of maintaining peace in Europe. Lives were lost, large amounts treasure were expened, and it took three generations to fully accomplish the mission of peace in Europe, but the true price of peace is never cheap or easy or fast. The cost of failure to remainvigilent fills the graveyards of battlefield after battlefield all across the world.

READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE HERE.
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Quote of the Day

Today's Quote of the Day comes from the Libertas website:

Getting shot hurts.

-- President Ronald Reagan

I'll take your word for it, sir.

Fortunately,
this fact was not stated by Bill Clinton or any of the leading
Democratic contenders for 2008 presidential election. I would be very
reluctant to attempt to independently verify this fact.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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An Idea

Let's try to remember the one hundred ten million who died under Communism.
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So What Else Is New?

Some tyrannophile wants to unleash deadly force against innocent people.

So what else is new?

Read about it at Little Green Footballs.

As to what I think about it: It's time we build the Joseph Goebbels Memorial Gallows for those members of the Fourth Estate who insist on inciting violence against innocent people. There is simply no excuse for such behavior.

I'm going up to Mom's house for the weekend. Will be back Sunday Night.
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Fred Vs. Hillary?

Mark Whittington has some things to say on the subject.

Indeed, whom would you rather have as President if it came to past that Al Qaeda was about to set off a nuclear bomb in your town? Hillary Clinton? Or a man like Fred Thompson, who has played Admirals and prosecutors, and could be President of the United States.

Which is to say do we want a conservative fellow who can be reasonably expected to push the button, or do we settle for a woman with a verifiable history of wetting the finger and sticking it in the air to see which way the wind blows and who really doesn't care what happens as long as she is in charge?

We know Fred can certainly act like a President.
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

I want this to be read at my funeral.

The Agnostic's Prayer
(Roger Zelazny, Creatures of Light and Darkness, © 1969)

Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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And Now...

It's time to go to the Zero-G spot!



Babylon Park!

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Anniversary

Here is about a thousand words on why I will never vote for a member of the Democratic Party.



Here is an interesting website on the Massacre of the Branch Davidians.

Fourteen years ago a small community in Texas was attacked by two packs of predatory animals.

The first pack was a federal agency whose functions were in part a deliberate and explicit violation of the charter and supreme law under which the Federal Government was established.

Even under regulations in effect at the time, the BATF could have sent a couple of agents in coats and ties in a plain government issue sedan to the Branch Davidian residence and asked the federally licenced firearms dealer living there to open his place of business and records to examination. Or if they needed to place the leader of the congregation under arrest they could have taken him into custody while he was out on his morning run. Given Mr. Koresh’s past history of cooperation with local law enforcement they could have simply asked him to come down to the local sheriff’s station.

The BATF did none of the above.

Instead the BATF attempted to stage a military-style assault, code-named Operation
Showtime, in order to impart a positive impression of the agency upon the socialist filth that had just moved into the White House. Never mind all the innocent women and children who could have been maimed or killed during the raid.

After the BATF goons were driven off another pack of predators, the so-called Hostage Rescue Team of the FBI, descended upon the Branch Davidians.

If it had been necessary to take the Branch Davidian residence by force a trainee platoon from the Benning School for Boys could, in accordance to their training, have entered the building and taken down any armed individuals without deliberately harming the non-combatants. Instead, the HRT, the alleged experts in hostage rescue, proceeded to terrorize the people within the residence. And when the Branch Davidians refused to surrender, they were exterminated by the HRT.

The HRT used some armored vehicles to destroy the exits from the building and to allow the ambient wind to blow through the structure while other armored vehicles injected CS gas, known to be inflammable and toxic to children and elderly persons, into the wooden structure.

And then the HRT fired incendiary devices into the building.

While the Branch Davidian residence burned to the ground on live television, HRT gunmen stationed behind the building out of sight of the TV cameras shot anyone who attempted to escape the fire from the rear of the building.

The Democrat majority in both houses of Congress were not the slightest bit appalled by the atrocity, instead of condemning the president for his actions and initiating the process of impeaching and removing President Clinton, they chose instead to condemn the victims and those who dared to speak up for them.

Given the choice of obeying the supreme law or violating the law, they chose to violate the law.

Given the choice of preserving innocent life or destroying it, they chose to destroy innocent life.

President Clinton and the Democratic Party could have obeyed the Constitution, the Supreme Law to which the President, the Congress, and the Federal Government in general were subject and stopped the terrorization and murder of the Branch Davidians, but instead chose to violate the Supreme Law.

And like a number of illiterate barbarian chieftains before him, President Clinton and his party used the murder of the Branch Davidians to demonstrate to the rest of us what would happen to anyone who refused to submit to their will. Instead of standing up for the rights and lives of Americans they chose instead to terrorize and murder Americans.

Since then the name “democrat” has become in my mind synonymous with the concept of
“murderer.” If there is one complaint I have about President Bush it is that he has done nothing to bring the perpetrators of this atrocity to justice.

Nothing. At. All.

Mister President, we are still waiting for justice.
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Just A Reminder

From the New Devil's Dictionary:

Gun Control: The theory that the solution to the problem of firearms usage by violent criminals is to attack, imprison, and kill innocent people who own firearms.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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This Is So Uncool

Hugh Hefner donates $2300 to Hillary's presidential primary campaign.

That isn't just uncool. It is irrational and utterly antihuman.

But then the word "playboy" used to be a term of contempt.

I would boycott PLAYBOY magazine, but I already refuse to waste money on a publication that promenently displays women who are so artificial in appearance as to be disgusting.

YUCK!
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This Is Cool

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Something I Found

While digging around for some old files I found some stuff I wrote years ago for a defunct publication under the title of HORROR QUOTES:



Trying to be right is unhealthy.

– Diane Hahn, HealthEast Human Services Apparatchik, April 8, 2002

Okay dear readers, what’s wrong with the above quote?

To be unhealthy is have something wrong with one physically, or the context of the interview, to have a psychological disorder. In effect, attempting to be correct on an issue, such as the conflict I had with the brain-dead thug of a site supervisor over a payroll issue, is somehow wrong. I ended up leaving HealthEast and as of this writing (2002) I’m between jobs.

(If you are new to reading this blog I have been delivering pizza for a bit over three years now.)


TEN THOUSAND LAKES AND GOD ONLY KNOWS HOW MANY LOONS.

The actual count of lakes in Minnesota is closer to twelve thousand and the loon is our official state bird. When I was in the United States Army my usual response to any inquiry as to my state of origin was, “the Soviet Socialist Republic of Minnesota, sir!”

The Ventura administration riled media organizations Tuesday by issuing credentials to state Capitol reporters that feature Gov. Jesse Ventura's photo and identify the wearer as an ``official jackal.''

The large, colorful credentials were delivered to about 30 radio, television and newspaper reporters in the Capitol on Tuesday morning, along with a press release citing ``security issues and accountability of who attends official Governor's Office events.''

– Lynda McDonnell, St. Paul Pioneer Press, February 21, 2001

David Pyle, Minnesota bureau chief for the Associated Press, directed AP reporters not to wear the new credentials.

``While this may have been intended as joke,'' he said, ``we take the matter seriously and will not subject AP staffers to wearing something that may be intended to demean them and their profession.''

– Ibid.

So “Jesse the Brain” is hitting a little too close to home, eh, Tovarich Pyle?

Meanwhile, over on the Left Coast:

I’m outraged by what happened ... They’re trying to take away my freedom forever and destroy me and destroy my family ... I didn’t want to have a political case ... But it was politicized by the Los Angles Police Department and the district attorney.

– Kathleen Soliah a.k.a. Sara Jane Olson. St. Paul Pioneer Press, February 24, 2001.

One of the problems with doing this column is that I am at times compelled to repeat myself. Kathleen Soliah was a communist agitator who joined a self-appointed manifestation of the Tcheka. When the bulk of this left-wing death squad were properly hunted down and killed, Soliah posed as an ordinary liberal, got married, and became an active member of the Minnesota branch of what we at The Resister call the Bolshevik party. Soliah, like all self-styled progressives, is a barbarian who won’t admit it.

Don’t let them turn this trial into a circus. Don’t let them try the SLA ideology ... We’re not here to defend the ideology or political strategy or activities of the SLA.

– J. Tony Serra, Attorney for Kathleen Soliah. St. Paul Pioneer Press, February 24, 2001.

Gee, why not?

That is what they do in such “Progressive” states as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People’s Republic of China.

Civilized society cannot tolerate predatory and destructive behavior by groups and individuals within it. The ranting and raving of ideologists notwithstanding, there can be no possible excuse for robbery, murder, or any other form of predatory behavior.


BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!

Banking heiress and art patron Agnes Gund irritated some of her wealthy friends last week by going public with her opposition to President George W. Bush’s plan to repeal the estate tax.

– Keith Naughton, Newsweek, February 26, 2001.

In a more civilized and morally correct time, robbing the dead (or anyone unable to defend themselves such as widows and orphans) was identified and dealt with as an utterly reprehensible act. It was not unusual in the wake of disasters – such as the San Francisco earthquake – for those caught in the act of looting the deceased to be shot dead on the spot.

But Gund is part of a group of nearly 100 millionaires and billionaires who believe abolishing the tax have a devastating effect on America by shifting the tax burden from the nation’s richest 2 percent onto the poor and the middle class.

– Ibid.

First, this is pure nonsense, those of us who actually work for a living are already carrying the major portion of the tax burden.

Secondly, the take from this form of legalized grave robbing is estimated to be about 285 billion dollars over the next ten years. This is pocket change -- less than the amount allocated annually to “national defense” -- compared to the total federal budget, most of which is already wasted on various schemes for buying votes from a corrupted electorate.

Gund and her allies, including investor George Soros and actor Paul Newman, are part of a gold-plated petition drive by rich Americans who advocate that the government continue taxing their estates by up to 55 percent. The campaign is being organized by Responsible Wealth, a group that includes the Rockefellers.

– Ibid.

In other words, this petition is being pushed by the ususal gang of material and spiritual looters. The politically connected jackals and maggots who are presently feeding off of the remains of the American republic and of Western Civilization in general.

The petitioners argue that the estate tax makes America a meritocracy, not an aristocracy.

– Ibid.

Pay no attention to the Old Money Bastard behind the curtain.

A proper aristocrat -- as opposed to a Kennedy or a Rockefeller or other such vermin -- might believe that he has a patriotic or moral obligation to use part of his inheritance to buy mortars and TOW missile launchers for the heavy weapons company of the local militia unit, or perhaps purchase land for a training area.

We can’t have that in the New World Order, can we?

“I myself don’t think it is healthy to give huge amounts of money to one’s children,” says Steven C. Rockefeller, scion of one of the oldest-money families in America.

– Ibid.

Well boys and girls, can you say “hypocrite”?

By what right can anyone other than yourself determine how the product of your entire life’s work be ultimately disposed?


DON’T DREAM IT, BE IT!

The Boy Scout uniform has become almost a cherished national symbol. But at a time when same-sex benefits, diversity training and non-discrimination policies have become routine, organisations say the Scouts' refusal to admit gays has come to seem almost un-American.

– Sydney Morning Herald, August 30, 2000

Oh, really? Since when?

Without digging into whatever edition of the Holy Bible we happen to have at hand, it is clearly evident to the objective observer that homosexual sodomy (even prior to the appearance of HIV virus outside of Africa) is a form of self-destructive and irrational behavior, a moral code that did not condemn it would be a contradiction in terms. From the rational Darwinian perspective, homosexuals are simply rendering themselves unfit to live. No rational parent would knowingly leave their sons in the charge of such willfully depraved individuals. The policy of the Boy Scouts of America prohibiting homosexuals as scoutmasters is absolutely morally correct.

So-called laws prohibiting “discrimination” against willfully self-destructive and predatory individuals are nothing more than a ban on moral judgement and any other necessary actions in defense of human life. In this case, you the parent, are “legally” prohibited from choosing the good of your child over the depraved desires of a pervert.

The political use of force to compel children to associate with homosexuals (and thus be abused by them) should be seen and treated as nothing less than an willfully depraved act of attempted murder. Public officials (elected or appointed) who engage in such abuses of power (which are in effect a form of Human Sacrifice) in order to suck-up to the homosexual collective are engaged in the deliberate and malevolent abuse of political authority and must be removed from their office by any means necessary.


MEANWHILE, INSIDE THE BELTWAY...

There are 12 safety standards for every toy, but there is not one safety standard for a gun lock, even though people are depending on these to keep their kids away from guns.

– Ann Brown, Consumer Product Safety Commission Chairwoman. St. Paul Pioneer Press,
February 7, 2001.

Apparently all but one of thirty-two models of gun locks could be opened without the key. Comrade Brown apparently found this frightening. Even though there were no reports of shootings resulting from a gun lock failure. Not that I personally care, the gun lock I received with the last pistol I purchased (a Glock 36 in .45 ACP) went straight into the trash can.

Could it be that contrary to the paranoid fantasies of the anti-gun collective that most gun owning parents actually succeed in teaching their children that firearms are not toys?


I’M SORRY ED, WE CANNOT DO THAT.

When we start to seriously do deep space exploration, I think “Earth” should do it. There is utterly no sense in doing it other than as a planetary civilization. It is insane, in my opinion, to be out in space and look back at this tiny little planet that is no bigger than a pinhead at a distance and say: “I come from the United States.” You come from Earth, if you came from anywhere! Exploring the cosmos in a planetary issue, not a national issue. Sure, we got started in our nationalistic period, but sooner or later, if we want to do this seriously, it has to be done as a planetary civilization.

– Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Interviewed in Artemis, Issue #4, Winter 2001.

We are still a type “0" civilization, just emerging from the trees. When we get ourselves together and know how to utilize cooperatively all the energy available on our planet, we can become a type “1" civilization. At that point, we can begin to colonize outer space.

– Ibid.

Imagine for a moment what the state of humanity would be if the ancestors of the Europeans and the Asians could not leave Africa until the inhabitants of that miserable continent were organized into a single continental civilization. (Better yet dear reader, don’t.)

Humans in general did not wait until they were organized as a single continental civilization before going out to explore, conquer, and colonize the rest of the world.

Another point to consider is that people who were happy with life in their homelands did not seek new lives for themselves and their families here in the New World. And the supposedly “happy” (read brainwashed) inhabitants of a so-called “type one” planetary civilization are not going to pack up and leave to settle another planet, such as Mars, let alone embark on a multi-generational voyage across interstellar space.

The Universe as a whole is ours if we want it. We only have to shove the power tripping vermin out of the way.


DON’T WORRY, ALLAH LOVES YOU, REALLY ...

If Atta had followed his own instructions that morning, carefully written out in a document entitled “The Last Night,” he had shaved excess hair from his body, dabbed on cologne, and sharpened his knife. He was instructed to pray, continuously, in the cab, in the airport, on the flight to Boston and as he took his seat in the first-class cabin on Flight 11. “Be happy,” he had written himself, “optimistic, calm, because you are heading for a deed God loves and will accept. It will be the day, God willing, you spend with the women of paradise.”

– “The Day That Changed America,” Newsweek, December 31, 2001.

Whereas the goal of the adherents of the Western Monotheist Tradition (if I understand it correctly) is permanent communion with God, the most consistent followers of the so-called prophet of the false god Allah are apparently motivated by the promise of eternal gratification of their animalistic desires.

But then what can one say about a false religion founded by an individual who combines and magnifies the worst attributes of William Jefferson Clinton, Lafayette Ron Hubbard, and Charles Manson? (Along with a bit of Woody Allen, or Roman Polanski for those readers living on the other left coast.)

Remember what Orwell said about the function of political ideology? The false theology of Islam serves this function, to create the illusion of legitimacy for actions which were and continue to be morally intolerable in civilized societies. Islam is a criminal conspiracy masquerading as a religion.

The self-styled prophet Mohammed (cursed be thy name) was a traitor, a robber, a murderer, a rapist, and a pedophile. Those who refused to submit to his whims (which he declared to be “the will of Allah”) were routinely robbed and murdered, and their wives and daughters raped. Anyone who spoke out against this vile creature were brutally butchered along with their entire families. The self-styled prophet’s last “wife” was only six years old (or nine, some accounts very) when he “married” her. A case could also be made in the context of Arabian society at the time for the charges of blasphemy and sacrilege.

In every respect this vile creature has earned the title ENEMY OF MANKIND.

(For a more complete picture of the origins and practice of Islam you should check out the following website: http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/islam.htm)

History

On this date in 1865 a sitting Republican President was shot to death by a member of the Thespian Community.

I understand that some thespians still hate us Republicans today.
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Quote of the Day

From somewhere in Wisconsin:

You see pint of Guinness? This is why nobody will ever love you as much as I do...

-- Attributed to Wil Wheaton.

Hmmm...Guinness...
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Someone Else's Thoughts For The Day

Mark Whittington has some interesting things to say about Hillary:

After an undistinguished term as Senator from New York, Hillary is now running for President (or Goddess Empress.) She may be a good enough politician to pull it off, especially if the Republicans nominate a loser to oppose her. (Of course the Democrats may throw her over for Obama, on the theory that she's yesterday's woman and Barak is a fresh, new, exciting face,) But one thing is for certain. She would be a horrible President, the sort of President that wrecks economies and loses wars. And that's a risk that cannot be taken.

And he has some ideas about what one of my favorite fictional politicians would do about the Iranians and the real world since September 11, 2001.

I must confess that the suggested solution to the Hillary problem is rather interesting. Bill should really watch his back.

"Extraordinary," Francis Urquhart said, reading through the Times. He had taken to doing his morning news reading on the computer, which was in itself extraordinary. "''Mr. Clinton has been arraigned for the murder of Mai Lim, a Chinese national. A statement issued by a Clinton spokesperson denies the charge and promises a vigorous defense in the courts. However an informed source with local law enforcement suggests that the former President was found in bed with the dead, bleeding corpse of Ms. Lim, a straight razor nearby with his fingerprints on it, and a large amount of cocaine in his bloodstream.'" He looked up at his security chief. "How did they manage that, I wonder?"

"I can make inquiries, Prime Minister."

"Please do. I am curious." He looked back at the computer screen. "'Senator Clinton has no comment on the matter and is in seclusion. There is already speculation that her hitherto near certain reelection as Senator from New York has become somewhat less certain.' Well, one less problem to have to worry about."

"Yes, Prime Minister."

Do I think Bill and Hill deserve such a fate?

You might think that, I couldn't possibly comment.

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So Anyway

Fred Thompson needs to work on his vanity.

Okay, I'm just kidding.

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And Now For Something Completely Different

Brownshirts on bicycles!


I had something to say on the subject of these assholes.

(HT: Hot Air and The New Editor.)
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

Some folks wonder why I hate peace activists to the point of wishing them dead.

Mark Noonan gives a good list of reasons here.

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Quote of the Day

Well, you can't really run a cult without surrounding yourself with young girls now, can you?

-- Jason Gracey

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Thought for the Day

The difference between being evil and being stupid is basically a matter of style.

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Found This In My Mail

I'm a subscriber to a mailing list that covers the subject of old Soviet movie cameras. This morning I found this message from that list in my mailbox:

Twenty years ago the same people who are now crying global warming got cover stories on the same magazines with gobal cooling-- simply because their time sample is too short. What they are doing amounts to prediciting the entire year's weather based on what things were like for the last two weeks.

I'm sorry you feel you are being "bullied," but having been trained in and working with structural demolition for the US military when I was younger, and having an engineering background, I well understand what is written and called "scientific evidence" about the buildings in 9/11 well enough to know it isn't either scientific or evidence.

Pose wild questions if you want, but having blown up a few buildings, under controlled circumstances, while filming them, I know the kinds, types, and amounts of explosives needed to drop a steel structure, and the time and prep needed. That's why the structural engineers and demolitions people admit that what happened is outside their experience, but that they know it was not imploded by plan.

"What you see" on a video may not really reflect what is happening, and much of demolitions is based on testing, trial and error, because things happen that do not seem logical, and even when filmed don't seem to match what we know we set up, what we did, and the amounts of material used.

I've supervised a crew shooting 2000fps+ of explosive tests on steel beams, and at the same time the event was also shot at 24fps-- I know it was the same event, but things happened and went away between frames on the 24fps that were vital to understanding what happened, and that were only recorded in part at 2000fps.

This forum should stick to a broad base of motion picture, and more narrowly to ex-Soviet cameras, but I can't let the global warming and we blew it up bit pass without calling it what it is.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Elsewhere

I've posted a new piece over at My Own Private Universe:

A Personal Vision.
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So Anyway

I'm watching ALL THAT JAZZ on the Fox Movie Channel and all I can say is the character of Joe Gideon is a fucking idiot.
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In Other News

Today is the 76th birthday of William Shatner.

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Quote of the Day

How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese?

-- Charles de Gaulle

It depends on what kind of sandwich you put the cheese on.
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Today in Pizzaland

On this day in 44 BC, a well known Roman politician had a run in with some pissed off members of the Senate.

Tyrannicide sucks, doesn't it JC?

As for me, the driver side door on my car had prematurely closed, banging my head and causing the frames of my glasses to gauge open a cut under the left eyebrow.

And there is now a visible bulge in the sidewall of the right-side front tire.

Other than that I had a good day at work.
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Quote of the Day

I'm the captain of a spaceship! I deserve to be higher on the food chain!

-- Sam Starfall

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Quote of the Day

Look, I hate to be a bad hostess but could you not bleed on my floor?

-- Aubrey Chorde

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So Anyway

The drive machanism for the mini-cassette recorder on my ancient Sony answering machine died today.

My brother was surprised that I was still using such an old clunker.
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Quote of the Day

Politician stumping in Hyde Park: "This nonsense of reincarnation is a dire affliction on society."

Heckler: "Come on, you said that in your last life."

-- Joseph T. Major

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Solution

I do my part to save the Earth by shutting off my television set whenever Al Gore or some other environmentalist wacko comes on.
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So Anyway

My car broke down.

I can't do deliveries today.

Shit.
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Thought for the Day

This is a very quick reply to an insane rant by a leftist on another blog:

One simply cannot argue with a raving lunatic.

There's no point in debating a leftist on individual issues because their overall epistomological methodology for all effects and purposes reverses the relationship between reality and fantasy. This leads to their well documented habit of systematically reversing good and evil.

And while there are many grounds for complaint on the part of the Right (the refusal to prosecute the participants in the Waco Massacre), we could hardly call the Bush Administration a failure.

And it is no suprise that a leftist would openly label someone who opposed them as "sub-human."

Members of the Left, like many pre-literate barbarians before them, are essentially moral and material parasites. They must reject the society of consent and seek power over those who can perform the work that sustains their lives. This drives them to see other persons as either tools they can use to further their own goals, or as organic waste to be disposed of.

So when a leftist declares someone to be "sub-human", that is in practice a precursor to the murder of that person.

The mass graves that are constantly being dug up in nations where the Left has obtained unrestrained power serve as the unrefutable proof of this fact.

So when I see a leftist bumper sticker on a car, the first thought that comes to my mind is "murderer."

If I have a complaint about the Right it is that we have shown infinite GOD-LIKE patience with the behavior of the Left.

Leftists can publically assault those who won't submit to them. Destroy property. And even call for the mutilation ("Lobotomies for Republicans") of opponents, and the murder of elected officials who are carrying out their constitutionally mandated duties, and we will not lift one finger to hurt a single hair on the otherwise useless head of a leftist.

I once told an editor that I worked for that we need not retorically dehumanise our opponents, all we have to do is accurrately describe their ideology and behavior because they have by their own choice dehumanised themselves.

I have to go to work now.
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Thought for the Day

I just posted this over at Political Yen/Yang:

I take a Democrat candidate seriously for the same reason that I pay attention to the any individual or group of menacing strangers when I make a pizza delivery in a bad neighborhood. It is the reasonable expectation that they may harm me.

Over the last three decades that I have observed the Democrats I have noticed that not only do they persistently take a wrong position on an issue, they will often do so as a simple mindless negation of the Republican position.

Violent Crime: Don't accept as a fact of reality that it is an act of will on the part of the criminal. Don't apprehend, prosecute, imprison, or where warranted execute the criminal. Instead attack innocent people, disarm them, and leave them helpless in the face of a growing population of violent criminals.

That's just one example. I could go on about insanity of their positions on National Defense, Energy Policy, Taxation, etc. But I really don't have time to do so. (Unlike some folks on the Left I have to go to work.)

The Democrats are not just a party that has to be opposed on individual issues. They are demonstrating that (they) are following a mental methodology that consistently places them in opposition to reality. And reality is real, opposing it will hurt you.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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So Anyway

I had a nightmare tonight that I was trapped in a building that was under attack with bombs and guns by muslims.

I'll try to go back to sleep now.

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A Comment On Leftist Hypocracy

From a glamdroid watch website:

So I'm supposed to live like a raccoon while this tubby f*ck drives a go-cart from room to room on his fabulous estate. These dirty god-damn hippies all tell me how awful America is and how great everyone else is, and we should all roll around in the mud like these third world nightmares whose number one export is alien like diseases, meanwhile he's flying back and forth to Caligula-like parties in Beverly Hills on his 20 million-dollar Gulfstream jet. I'm supposed to power my shower with a treadmill, but according to this editorial in the USA Today, Gore can't even be bothered to sign up for "earth friendly" power sources like wind energy, even though the utility companies that service his homes (he has three) in Tennessee and Washington DC offer it as an alternative.

They don't care if you suffer while alive or die as long as you submit to their will.

For them power over others is the source of their sustainance. The state of Liberty, where we deal with each other on the basis of consent, is toxic to them.

For them: Power is life. Freedom is death.

Barbarians (paleo or neo) are funny that way.
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Thought for the Day

Why do I feel like I'm tied up and gagged in the back seat of a car driven by someone who insists on driving on the wrong side of the road and who responds to the appearance of oncoming traffic by denying that it exists and stomping on the accelerator pedal?
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

I strongly recommend that you read this.

You need to remember this, to the parasite mentality, POWER IS LIFE, LIBERTY IS DEATH.

In the state of Liberty, without power over the productive, the parasite must either learn to be a productive individual (in short, get a job) or it will die.

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Thought for the Day

Carol Cleveland in the Travel Agent Sketch.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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John Bergstrom Still Doesn't Play Well With Others

Forgot to post this one too.

And only a moron can tell you how evil freedom is.

We again return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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John Bergstrom Doesn't Play Well With Others

One of these things is not like the other


From the Book of Armaments, Chapter Two, Verses Nine through Twenty-one:

And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that, with it, Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits in Thy mercy.' And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats and large chu--...

And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'

Of course one of the problems with the real Christian Holy Bible is that it really doesn't have a Book of Armaments.

Dealing with Islam would be a lot easier if it did.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Somebody Had To Say It

From the Strategy Page:

One look at the quantities involved really answers the question as to whether or not the Algerian build-up is a threat to France. The short answer is that it isn't. The Algerians would be outnumbered, and facing fighters at least as good as their new MiG-29s and Su-30s, if not better in some respects. This is before the French advantages in areas like airborne early-warning aircraft (France uses variations of the E-3 and E-2) and aerial refueling come into play. In short, a modern Franco-Algerian war is one that Algeria would lose in the air, even though they would be fighting the French.

Emphasis mine.

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A Bit Of Fun

Coming soon from the BBC, a nature documentary on the new Iraq:

(Narration in italics)

Another intruder in the Iraqui ecosystem is the M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank. Here we see an Abrams Tank as it stalks its prey, an Iraqui insurgent.

We see an Abrams Tank hiding behind some tall grass. It then leaps out and chases down the insurgent.

The Abrams Tank uses its superior speed to run down and kill the insurgent.

The Abrams Tank runs over and then goes through the motions of devouring its kill.

The Abrams Tank can comsume up to ten times its body weight in the course of a year.

The Abrams Tank is suddenly surrounded by a half-dozen Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles. The Abrams Tank rotates its turret with the main gun level and honks its horn as a warning.

The infantry carriers will have to wait their turn...

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A Question

Why do I have the awlful feeling that J.A. Steel is going to be the Ed Wood of the Twenty-First Century?

Could it be the passion that she brings to her work?

Could it be the sexual identity issues she could have?

Could it be the appearance of ineptitude in her style of directing and editing?

See the trailer for SALVATION.
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Thought for the Day

The present-day liberal, as with any other barbarian, does not care about the height of the pile of human skulls as long as he (or in the case of Hillary, she) is firmly seated upon it.

And Hillary is still a Miserable Failure.
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Sad News

Actor Ian Richardson dead at 72

Laconic actor Ian Richardson, famed for his role as the arch manipulator in the BBC political drama House of Cards, has died suddenly at the age of 72, his agent said on Friday...

"House of Cards was just so much his own," Diamond said, reflecting on Richardson's role as the epitome of elegant evil in the BBC parliamentary trilogy.

His oleaginous aside as a Machiavellian politician - "You might say that, I couldn't possibly comment" - has entered the language as a perfect catchphrase for devious evasiveness.

I first taped HOUSE OF CARDS off the air when it was broadcast on our local PBS station and then bought the VHS set from the BBC when it became available. There are differences between the PBS and BBC edits of the series.


Link to the ITV story.

Someone on an alternate history site is writing a fanfic about how the character of Francis Urquhart would have handled 9/11 and the events of the real year 2001.
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And Then...

Les wakes up, reads Little Green Footballs, notices that Arabs hate Bush, and says:

(Roll 1d6)

1-3. So what else is new?

4-5. Really? Kate Bush can't suck that badly.

6. Something involving an obscure anatomical reference that he cannot repeat in a public forum. (Checks to see that he spelled "public" correctly.)

Les goes back to bed.
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Think Of It As Insanity In Action

I found the following story from the Toronto Star on FARK dot com:

There is something endearing about the 65 believers gathered in Canada's capital of capitalism this weekend for a convention on communism.

There are a number of terms I would use for such a gathering, endearing is not one of them.

First off, it takes chutzpah to call 65 people a convention. Then there are the facts: The collapse of the USSR and the Soviet bloc, Fidel Castro's fragile health, and the triumphs of Microsoft and Google and Wal-Mart. Doesn't phase them.

"The first airplanes didn't work, the pilots died, but the principles of the first flying machines were excellent." says delegate Antonio Artuso, 61, by way of explaining communism's failure to thrive in the 20th Century, and his continuing belief that it will one day triumph.

"It takes time for systems to work," he adds.

The science of aviation works because those who practice it actually made the effort to discover and apply the relevant facts of reality to their endeavor. The aviation mishaps that do occur are usually the result of someone not paying attention to the relevant facts.

The theory of Communism was invented by a group of professional parasites in order to give the appearance of modernity and moral legitimacy to the stone-age practice of beating-up and killing productive people and taking their stuff.

Of course that is about the nicest description I could give to it. Normally I think of the practice of Communism as being the behavior of those who chose to act as sub-human predatory animals. And as with any other predatory animal that attacks human beings I believe that they should be hunted down and killed.

Of course Comrade Artuso isn't the only one to not get it. Comrade Figueroa is optimistic about the future of Communism.

Mistakes have been made, he points out.

The first wave of socialism contained "distortions and perversions."

"I continue to be confident that the next wave of socialism will be qualitatively different, qualitatively better, because we've learned a lot of lessons from the past."

Because a 110 million innocent human lives snuffed out in the pursuit of an invalid ideology is just not enough.

Would they stop after killing 200 million or 300 million?

Of course not.

Parasite mentalities as a general rule see themselves as superior beings and other people, the productive population, exist solely as either tools that they can use to pursue their goals or as trash to be disposed of. Killing those who rightfully refuse to be the slaves of the self-appointed superior beings is not an act of murder, in their minds is it simply the disposal of hominid garbage.

I practical terms, a Communist is a mortal enemy of human kind. And killing a Communist can be no more wrongful than putting down a rabid animal or destroying any other active hazard to human life.
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So What Else Is New?

Once again the assholes on the Left are attempting to rewrite history to suit their own ends.

In this case they are attempting to deny the fact that leftist trash were spitting on uniformed members of the armed forces in the period during and subsequent to the Vietnam War. That and the screaming "babykiller" thing.

One should think that with a minimum estimated bodycount of 110 million persons of all ages and genders by various Marxist regimes that the label of "babykillers" would be more accurately applied to the Left.

We should also remember that the act of spitting on a member of the armed forces is also the repudiation of the idea of the right to Life and Liberty of every citizen and legal resident of the nation that service member has sworn to defend.

When a walking piece of leftist trash spits on a uniformed member of the armed services its message to all citizens and legal residents is simply "die motherf***er."

And as a citizen and former soldier of the United States I would have to interpret that message in a very personal manner.


HT: Instapundit
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I Like This

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Quote of the Day

The gates of Auschwitz were not opened with peace talks. Holland was not liberated by peacekeepers and fascism was not defeated with a deft pen.

-- Rick Mercer

Hat tip to George Moneo at Babalu.
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